Post-Mortem Survey for Making Art Work 2020-21
Thank you for participating in the Making Art Work professional development workshop series co-presented by Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Union Gallery, and Agnes Etherington Art Centre. We are looking for feedback from participants of the program to inform future professional development programs. The survey should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. Your answers will be anonymous. Thank you for your time!
OFF-SITE EXHIBITIONS
Moving Forward, Looking Back: 45 Years of Contemporary Art
Moving Forward, Looking Back: 45 Years of Contemporary Art is a multi-layered project by Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre designed to reflect on our history, highlight our accomplishments, promote the hundreds of artists that have worked with us, as well as disseminate and present valuable artistic content from our archives as we celebrate 45 years of Modern Fuel and contemporary art.
Moving Forward, Looking Back: Presenting 45 Years of Contemporary Art involves engaging our community with contemporary art through the public presentation of works from Modern Fuel’s archives. Modern Fuel has partnered with Gabriel Bevilacqua, a historian, archivist, digitizer and emerging curator, who will curate a series of exhibitions for three different platforms including off-site exhibitions throughout Kingston; a virtual exhibition on Modern Fuel’s website; as well as a public screening in the community. The artistic content for these exhibitions will include reproductions of artwork, images, and texts from previous exhibitions, as well as footage of past performances, videos and short art films.
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Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts for funding our project Moving Forward, Looking Back: Presenting 45 Years of Contemporary Art.
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Learn more about each Off-Site Exhibition on display in local Kingston businesses in the series below.
About the Curator
Gabriel Bevilacqua
Gabriel is an archivist and historian who is responsible for digitalizing the past 45 years of Modern Fuel Archives. In addition to his role as an archivist, Gabriel has curated a series of off-site exhibitions titled, "45 years of Art in Kingston Through the Lens of Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre," which includes the exhibition above.
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He holds a Master of Science degree in History where his research focused on databases and digitization and conservation of performance and conceptual art in Brazilian and Canadian art museums. He is the collection manager of the aarea.co digital art platform and a consultant in cultural heritage digitization and preservation projects. He has been working with cultural heritage collections for the past 20 years. He was an archivist and collection manager in Brazilian art museums such as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and the Instituto Moreira Salles. He served as a board member of the ICOM Brazil National Committee, ICOM International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC), Associação de Arquivistas de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) and the Instituto de Arte Contemporânea (São Paulo, Brazil). He also works as a volunteer and collaborator in cultural heritage projects and organizations such as the Vulnerable Media Lab (Queen's University) and the Museu Afro Brasil’s documentation and reference center (São Paulo, Brazil).